[Brystephor]

Maybe a silly question, but has anyone used these in production? Or used libraries in production which are built on these structures?

Im imagining a meeting about some project design, and thinking about how it'd go if someone suggested using parentheses to represent nodes of a tree. I imagine it'd get written off quickly. Not because it wouldn't work, but because of the complexity and learning curve involved.

[pelario]

The most emblematic application in real life is in bioinformatics. BWA and Bowtie are two widely used softwares built upon them.

[392]

Why are you having project design meetings about details as low level as the in-memory representation of data in a program?